This course aims at providing students with creative problem solving and competitive programming skills. International programming competition-type problems will be used to motivate the study of algorithms, programming, and other topics in computer science. Enrollment in the course requires approval of the course instructor.

CILO-1: An ability to solve competitive programming problems based on their knowledge in data structures and algorithm designs. CILO-2: An ability to develop their creative problem solving skills. CILO-3: An ability to communicate with groupmates in competitive programming contests.